Emily Dickinson's Approving God: Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering"Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, faith and skepticism, theology and science in light of continuing confrontations between Darwinism and design, science and literal conceptions of a divine Creator"--Provided by publisher. |
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Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering Patrick J. Keane. Emily Dickinson's Approving God Missouri Emily Dickinson's Approving God Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design. Patrick J. Keane Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine ...
Divine Design and the Problem of Suffering Patrick J. Keane. Emily Dickinson's Approving God Missouri Emily Dickinson's Approving God Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine Design. Patrick J. Keane Emily Dickinson's Approving God Divine ...
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... Emily Dickinson's approving God : divine design and the problem of suffering / Patrick J. Keane . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . Summary : " Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem ' Apparently with no surprise ...
... Emily Dickinson's approving God : divine design and the problem of suffering / Patrick J. Keane . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . Summary : " Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem ' Apparently with no surprise ...
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... Emily Dickinson God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of ... Emily Dickinson will elude us always. She.
... Emily Dickinson God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of ... Emily Dickinson will elude us always. She.
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... Emily Dickinson (Harvard University Press, 1955) and in his one- volume Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown and Com- pany, 1957, and often reprinted). Most Dickinson scholars now cite The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Vari ...
... Emily Dickinson (Harvard University Press, 1955) and in his one- volume Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown and Com- pany, 1957, and often reprinted). Most Dickinson scholars now cite The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Vari ...
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... Emily Dickinson lyric, the 1884 “Apparently with no surprise”—a poem epitomizing her lifelong wrestling with God and symbolically addressing the theological prob- lem presented by violence and suffering. The interdisciplinary study that ...
... Emily Dickinson lyric, the 1884 “Apparently with no surprise”—a poem epitomizing her lifelong wrestling with God and symbolically addressing the theological prob- lem presented by violence and suffering. The interdisciplinary study that ...
Contents
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Einsteins Spinozistic God | 42 |
The Contemporary Debate | 58 |
Chapter 4 Design Challenged and Defended | 76 |
Chapter 5 Emily Dickinson on Christ and Crucifixion | 91 |
Apparently with no Surprise and Related Scenarios | 107 |
Chapter 7 Design and Accident | 118 |
Chapter 10 Flowers and Thoughts Too Deep for Tears | 160 |
Chapter 11 Questioning Divine Benevolence | 174 |
Believing and Disbelieving | 191 |
MultiPerspectivism in Interpretation | 205 |
Derek Mahons A Disused Shed in Co Wexford | 215 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index of First Lines | 237 |
General Index | 241 |
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